Kevin Bresnahan

Good to hear that he's back out there. He was injured back in February and had to cancel a few gigs. I hope he can make his way back to Boston soon. I was amazed to read that his wife Toshiko turned 88 in December.

One of the best concerts I ever saw included Jackie McLean fronting his quartet with Cedar Walton, David Williams & Billy Higgins. Like you, I'll remember that one for the rest of my life. It was special.

The Billy Higgins CD is gone but these others are still here. I will probably toss them in the next couple of days so if anyone wants them, speak up. Kevin

Um... not for me. I'll bow out of the discussion since I have no idea if this is good free jazz or not.

Great record! I'll have to pull it off the shelf later. I play the CD often. The CD adds a few hard-to-find JATP performances from their Paris show in 1958.

What's unusual is that Mosaic's E-mail from yesterday specifically mentions, " We are in the process of sorting out and assembling a number of Mosaic collectibles (no lists are yet compiled or available)." It would seem that they are only sending out a list to people who ask and live too far away to be able to attend the open house sale in CT. If they wanted a list published, I think that they'd have published it.

It still seems weird to have to think "the late Dwayne Burno".

Is that an analog recording or a digital one?

Leo P(ellegrino) is already somewhat known as the dancing Jazz guy. He plays in Too Many Zooz and there are several videos of him going crazy on a bari while dancing around in a NYC subway station. I really dig his playing. He's fun for what is shooting for. It's not like he's trying to be the next Joe Lovano.

I thought that the link I pasted in, which has a tab labeled "Also performed by", would have allowed you find all of the recorded versions of this song. They do have the Tjader version listed but not the Wild Bill Davis version.

Unless Square Trade has changed and offers a full replacement option, it's probably not going to be worth it in the end. A majority of audio gear these days have circuit boards made in a way that makes it nearly impossible to rework them. For instance, if an amplifier dies, you'd have to remove it from the board and install a new one. Since they've gone to lead-free solder, the temperatures required to get that old component off the board are 280-300 degrees Celsius, This temperature often (usually?) melts the metal traces on the circuit board. To make matters worse, you need that same 280-300 degrees Celsius to get the new part back down onto the board, doubling the opportunity to melt that trace. Add into this the fact that the packages being used today are smaller and smaller so that it is nearly impossible to get the package leads to line up on a re-worked circuit board and you have a recipe for disaster. I used to debug and re-work TVs and audio gear. I stopped about 15 years ago after several failed attempts. It's just not worth the effort. Nowadays, I just buy a new one.

https://www.allmusic.com/song/cubano-chant-mt0010854261

Max $100 discount so don't start looking at buying anything over $500.

Jackie McLean - Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note). United Artists-era Stereo pressing which discogs.com dates to 1973. Followed by The Kenny Burrell Quintet With John Coltrane (Prestige). Green label Van Gelder pressing. Not much of an improvement over my Fanatsy/OJC pressing from the 80's.

Johnny Hodges - Mess Of Blues (Verve). This could've been called "Mess Of Creed Taylor Production" since he somehow made this small band sound like they're playing an airplane hanger and Wild Bill Davis' organ is way too far to the front of the mix. Very jarring at times. The worst thing is that someone appears to have played the last track of Side 1, "Little John, Little John" with a scalpel that amazingly plays through without a skip. I'd give this 3.5 stars for Hodges, 1 star for Davis and 0 stars for sound. Luckily, it was very cheap.

I hope they don't have mess with the EQ too much to fit these onto one LP side. Seems too long without at least rolling off the bass.

I actually bought Ploug's "Fernweh" from him when I saw him perform at a small club in Ireland many years ago when I was visiting on business. Nice player.

I might have to head down there for this but it starts on a workday and it might be tough to get out of work again so soon after vacation last week. I wonder if it'd be worth it to head down on Saturday or if everything will be picked through by then.

Well, Michael Cuscuna is 68 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cuscuna) and has be thinking about retirement in the next few years. I hope I will be retired by the time I'm 68. Life is too short to spend 70% of my waking hours at work. Of course, if work is your life, different story.

It's been a long while since I've shopped AV receivers. Lately, I've been a fan of Marantz, but most of their models are more than $500-600. At your price point, it might be tough. I would take a look at Onkyo or maybe Yamaha. Seems like Best Buy has several in your range.

There's this little nugget was buried in a court filing from 1995 (https://www.leagle.com/decision/19951511895fsupp61611408): From the inception of his UPTOWN RECORDS label in 1979 to the present, Sunenblick has produced and released a total of 35 recordings under the mark UPTOWN RECORDS, selling 80,000 units in the form of vinyl records, cassette tapes and compact discs, originally through the mails. (PX 95). Sunenblick testified that gross revenues have exceeded $400,000, although the record further establishes that the business has incurred an overall net loss of $134,644, and has only made a modest net profit in six of the fifteen years in question. Although Sunenblick's records have been sold in some large retail outlets, such as Tower Records, J & R Music World and HMV, as well as smaller outlets, it is only in three years out of fifteen (1983, 1988 and 1989) that Sunenblick has sold more than 5,000 records overall in a given year. Only three of his recordings (chief among them the Maria Muldaur Transblucency recording, UP27.25) sold in excess of 5,000 units. I doubt that he made much money off of Uptown Records. It sounds like this was more of a labor of love than a money-making venture.

Sad news indeed. I've enjoyed many of his recordings.

You have this version: https://www.discogs.com/The-Jazz-Messengers-At-The-Cafe-Bohemia-Volume-3/release/7508024 Interesting label... BLP???? BTW, on this label, it does say "Not For Sale" on it.

I hope you enjoy your VPI better than I did mine... I hated that tonearm. I dreaded setting the needle down on the record, as I could see it wobble back and forth for a few seconds as the tonearm pivot settled. In theory, a needle is the optimal tonearm pivot. In practice, I just didn't like it. I also could never get the anti-skate set right. They tell you to twist the wires for anti-skate, but that was too course. I will say this, to make your life easier in setting the VTF and azimuth, get one of these: https://www.musicdirect.com/analog-accessories/soundsmith-counter-intuitive-for-vpi-tonearms It helped my sanity. And please don't get me wrong - VPI is a highly respected turntable and I would never tell anyone that it's not a great turntable. I just didn't like it at all... and I really, really wanted to.

If you have Volumes 1 & 2 on the US CD releases, you have all of the music that's on Volume 3 from Japan. Edit - If what you saw was the TOCJ-1603 CD, it's somewhat hard to find, so $15 is a pretty good price for it. But as I said, no need to get it if you already have the music on other CDs.